Hi

My wife has just started setting up a business and wanted to also set up a web site to go with that business. Having a background in IT, software development, user interface design, etc. I thought this would be a good home project for me. After giving up on finding a useable (and free) web site editor and a fair amount of research (about 2 hours - my attention span) I decided on using Joomla. The positive comments and reports for this tool was overwhelming, I just had to try it out.

So far I am not regretting my decision.

My background is in real-time software development, unix/linux environments, C and C++ programing and X-windows, X-Lib and Motif development. My experience in the world of web development is nothing, although I am a heavy user. I was a bit daunted but confident when starting my foray into building a site on a hosted server. The installation of Joomla was a breeze. I managed to install and have it running in less than half an hour.

Now I am in the process of learning to use the admin tool and experimenting with content. I have even managed to install some new tempaltes and extensions (its so easy!). The next step is to jump into the world of PHP and to start creating a custom template to use for the new site.

I am sure I will have plenty of questions when I get into trouble, but so far it has been so easy and I am having fun.

Wish me luck!

Hi Grant

Great to hear. I'm sure you'll do well. Hopefully as well as posting your questions here you will show us the site you are building?

Good luck with all and hope you find this site helpful

Dex

Thanks!

As soon as I have something worth looking at I will post the link. Since it is an after hours project it may be several weeks before I have anything ready for potential release to the public.

Grant